Bloodline Alchemy by Lan Chan

Author:Lan Chan [Chan, Lan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-20T22:00:00+00:00

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The next thing I knew, somebody was shouting my name. Months of sleeping rough had me startling upright. Fae lights came on in the house followed by the stamping of feet and Charles swearing up a storm.

When my door burst open, it wasn’t Charles who dashed through. I screamed as Noah came to a halt at the base of my bed. His chest was covered in blood. The shocking burst of red was too much to my sleep-addled brain.

“Downstairs,” Noah ordered. “Now! Bring potion!”

Heart in my throat, I snatched a few vials of potion and raced out behind him. My limbs were so heavy with dread that I felt like I could hardly lift my legs. Don’t let it be Max. Don’t let it be Max. Don’t let it be Max.

It wasn’t Max. But it was just as bad.

Jeremiah held Lizzie in his arms. His face was a storm of aggression, the bear so close to the surface that I swear I blinked and his mouth was a snout. The only reason I could tell it was Lizzie was because of the mop of black hair. The rest of her was a mess of blood and limbs sticking out at the wrong angles. Amy was on the couch, her arms drenched to the elbows in blood, her face sheet-white. She stood up when she saw me. Uncertainty blend into the anguish in her eyes.

Noah pushed me in the back. “Help her!”

In my head, somebody was screaming non-stop. The sound was so high-pitched I thought it might burst my eardrums. A part of me thought she might already be dead, but I didn’t dare allow that thought to take hold. I was already moving.

When I got close however, Jeremiah backed up. His arms constricted around Lizzie. I knew he wasn’t thinking clearly anymore, because he was crushing her in the process.

More people stomped into the living room. Ari and Gwen followed by...Max. His eyes flicked to the T-shirt I was wearing and then he was in front of me. When he pulled me into a hug, I didn’t struggle.

“She’s just barely holding on,” he said, his voice urgent in my ear. “Breathe. You can do this.”

Then he turned and issued an order in his implacable alpha voice. “Let go of her, Jeremiah.” The whine came from Amy, but Ari and Gwen were holding her back. Or upright. It was hard to tell. Jeremiah emitted a vicious growl that came from the soul of a father who was paralysed. When Noah and Max moved closer to him, Jeremiah shifted for real, his teeth becoming inch-long spines.

Max’s arm shot out. He snapped a punch that clocked Jeremiah right in the jaw. The bear’s eyes rolled back in his head. Noah raced out and snatched Lizzie from Jeremiah’s grasp while Ari dived to ease his fall.

Noah laid Lizzie down on the soft carpet. I bit my tongue to stop from turning into a sopping mess. The thing that had mauled her wasn’t demonic. There was no necrosis anywhere in her injuries.

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